Flowers: Spring to Summer

Height: 24 inches

Germination: Experience Useful

Aftercare: Care Required

Description: All sorts of easy to grow cacti all of which are ideally suited to window-sills, sun rooms or greenhouse. Height 10-60cm (4-24in). Flowering most times of year. Packets should contain: Carnegia gigantes, Ferocactus aconthodes, Ferocactus wislenzii. Lemairocereus thurberi. Opuntis phaecantha, Opuntis chtorotica, Pachycereus pringlii, Cylindropuntia Imbricata.

Sowing Instructions: Sow from mid winter to late summer in a free draining compost, just covering the seed with silver sand. Seal in a polythene bag or cover with glass until germination which can take from 2-12 weeks. As this is a mixture, different types will germinate at different times. They will all germinate at 21 -24C (70-75P) but for most rapid results we recommend gradually raising the temperature over a period of 2 weeks from 14C (57P) to 30C (86F), when the large green seed leaf has been observed.

Growing Instructions: Prick out into 6cm (2in) pots, then 8cm (3in) and 15cm (6in) pots as required, and water carefully until established.